State of Orca in Ubuntu 24.04

[Nick Wood]

Thanks Milton and Kyle.


I've used Fedora before quite successfully but I just liked the idea of 
not having to upgrade to a new release twice a year.


I'll give Ubuntu 24.04 Gnome a go and see how I get on.


Regards,


Nick


On 04/03/2025 13:11, Kyle wrote:
> I have a miniPC that I use to run a home file and web server and the
> like. I wanted to install Ubuntu 24.04 on it about two months ago, as I
> also wanted the long-term support. Perhaps it was because I used
> Ubuntu-MATE rather than the regular GNOME-based Ubuntu, but any time I
> would change some basic Orca settings, Orca stopped speaking until I
> deleted its configuration files in ~/.local/share/orca. I ended up
> installing Fedora-MATE-Compiz on that machine and it is working well.
> Perhaps this is fixed in Ubuntu-MATE 24.10, or maybe GNOME Ubuntu
> doesn't have this problem. But now that I have things working and
> speaking, I don't really want to run too many experiments on that
> machine now. Since at least one person does have GNOME Ubuntu speaking,
> I say go for that version and see how it works for you. You don't have
> to install anything before you have played with it to see how well it
> will work on your system.
>
> ~Kyle
>